Reading Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is known by the books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We often read with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We read often with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be an inventor to read well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best rule of reading will be a method from nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson